Without having walked in their shoes I cannot imagine how my wife and I would have acted. I can say I would do everything possible to save my child.
What a horrible choice.
This oughtta be good. Assisted suicide meets compassion meets religion.
The People’s Republic of Oregon would have applauded Mommy if she had aborted her little girl or talked her into having sex change surgery. But they will probably charge her with child neglect and failure to seek medical assistance in this sad case.
In today’s world if the little girl had decided on a gender change, a judge would have enforced it.
Just the words sound like she was leading her to stay home.
The problem is that we only see the printed word, and miss the facial expressions, the pauses, the emotions, the inflections, which convey a lot of contextual info just dialog/printed words don’t.
It is the same problem we face here on FR with discussions and people misunderstanding someone’s post the wrong way.
My mozilla browser tried to block this page saying it was an attack site. Is this an attack againts Freepdom or what?
If, as is the case, our society allows parents to decide to decline treatment for their children when a child has an incurable fatal disorder, it seems odd to fault parents for doing this in a way that involves consulting the child, yes even consulting the child in a leading way.
This is child abuse. Telling the kid to choose death is child abuse.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’d like to read this article but I can’t get passed that hilarious headline HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
At first, Julianna's severe case of CMT debilitated her arms and legs, but now it’s targeting the nerves that control her breathing muscles, according to the wire service.
CMT is one of the Muscular Dystrophy diseases. And according to NIH and the CMT association websites normal onset of the disease is in early adulthood and the disease has a slow progression. It also says that near normal life span can be expected.
From birth onset and end stage of the disease at 5 years old would seem to be atypical for this disease.
Jehovah’s Witness kids don’t even get the Heaven option
My wife had CMT. I lost her to “complications” August 29, 2011. Hers was not nearly as severe as this little girl’s case. My wife lived to 63 years.
I miss her.
With medical science at the threshold of so many possible cures who is to say that this child may not be cured? Also God still does miracles. We should choose life and leave death only in God’s hands.
I wonder if these parents have searched for possible cures or at least helps that may be out there apart from the USA medical system. The medical system in the USA is limited and doesn’t utilize all of the medical treatments that may be available in the rest of the world. It is also amazing what health cures can accomplish for some people in some cases. The USA medical community is basically completely ignorant about cures and helps that may be available apart from medicine itself. There is so much information out there that it needs to be searched out.
When they ask the child about if she wants to die and go to heaven have they told her how nasty it can be to die, maybe more nasty than the medical procedure she doesn’t like. It may be awful to go through the process to die. It not an option not to suffer. Most everyone wants to live as the desire for life is built into us. This child is so young that a longer life may give way to a cure and a life of great value and length. Of course for the child to die quickly may be easier on the parents.